PayPal Innovation Lab

Lab Crawl Agenda

Session 1
10:00am - Registration
10:15am - Fire Side Chat session 1 :
Speaker : Karthik Subramanian - CTO at Zalora Group
Topic : Zalora’s journey as one of the leading e-commerce brands in SEA
11:00am - Lab Visit - Networking and refreshment

Session 2
02:00pm - Registration
02:15pm - Fire Side Chat session 2 :
Dr. Julian Hosp - Co-founder & President at TenX (PayPal Incubatee)
Topic : Development of blockchain and ICO as a fuel of blockchain economy
03:00pm - Lab Visit - Networking and refreshment

About the speaker

Session 1 : Karthik Subramanian - CTO at Zalora Group
Karthik Subramanian is an original co-founder and the CTO at ZALORA Group, S.E. Asia's largest online fashion destination.
Karthik has been responsible for the group’s Technology, Product Management and Data vision and execution and has overseen the growth of the business from launch to 30 million app users and 10 million customers in 8 countries. Prior to ZALORA, Karthik was the AGM of a clothes hanger manufacturing business in Shenzhen. As a fresh graduate, Karthik spent 5 years in a Silicon Valley enterprise security startup that was acquired by IBM and was a systems developer, a solutions engineer and an account manager based in the US Midwest. Karthik holds a Bachelor of Computing in Computer Engineer (Honours) from the National University of Singapore and an MBA from INSEAD.

Session 2 : Dr. Julian Hosp - Co-founder & President at TenX
After his successful career as a professional kitesurfer (ranking among top 10 in the world) and later as a trauma surgeon, Julian became a serial entrepreneur, bestselling author and keynote-speaker.
He co-founded the Singapore based FinTech company TenX, the only company worldwide that makes multiple digital currencies instantly spendable anytime anywhere by offering a debit card payment system to its users.
Julian was named one of the top Blockchain and Cryptocurrency experts. He is a frequently invited speaker at global Tech/FinTech events as well as a regular commentator in the media on current blockchain trends, the future of cryptocurrency and best ICO practices.

PayPal Innovation Lab helps foster innovation, R&D, entrepreneurship and capability building in Singapore through collaboration with government agencies, Institutes of Higher Learning (IHL), industry associations and ecosystem partners. Incepted in 2016, PayPal Innovation Lab’s key focus areas are:

• Incubation – Developing and nurturing the next generation of FinTech startups alongside PayPal’s technology development center

• R&D – Conceptualizing the Future of Money in a Smart Nation through its R&D center and think tank

• Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) – Supporting and enabling local businesses in the areas of payments and e-Commerce